Care In Silo Construction By J. B. Davidson and M. L. King Iowa
The article stresses air tight silos to preserve silage and improve feed value for dairy cattle and other livestock. It covers wall and door sealing, smooth interiors, proper tramping, and venting to avoid air pockets, with notes on freezing in cold areas and concrete wall guidance. It also notes the King and Gueler air space method and emphasizes practical design. It concludes with recommendations on forage crops, especially red clover, for soil building and nitrogen supply in dairy farm rotations.
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King and
W. M. Kelley
Eggs and Exercise for Winter Laying on the Farm
The article advises that hens need exercise to lay well in cold weather. If confinement is necessary, use a deep straw litter with grain feed to encourage scratching. Allow daytime access to barn and stables to exercise and forage waste feed, then shut them out at night for warmth and dryness.
Food Value Of Fruit In Daily Diet
A compact note on nutrition highlights baked apples as more nutritious than baked potatoes and capable of producing more work. It lists dried fruits dates prunes figs apricots and raisins as readily available and stresses they are healthful and palatable. Fresh fruits such as bananas apples figs grapes blackberries strawberries and oranges have strong food value and can be economical. The piece notes Southern farmers are growing their own pork as a step toward independence.
Insects and Methods for Controlling Biting Pests
Glenn W Herrick explains two insect groups based on mouthparts biting and sucking and details poisons for biting insects. He covers Paris green arsenic preparations lime sal soda mixtures and stock solutions for spraying to protect crops.
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Paris Green
The Surest Hay Crop Alfalfa Instructions
Alfalfa resists drought, improves soil, and yields valuable hay. Disk each spring and sow thinly to eight pounds per acre, drills two inches deep. Manured land from corn or potatoes is best. Spread 200 pounds of soil from an alfalfa field, harrow in, and mow when eight to ten inches high. No nurse crop.
Items Eligible for Parcel Post Mailing
The list outlines goods permissible for parcels post including grains potatoes beans peas chestnuts acorns and other nuts for food. Medicines oils pastes salves ink powders pepper snuff flour candies yeast soap tobacco pills and tablets may be mailed when properly packed.
Methods and materials for crop spraying and soil treatment
The article outlines mixing Paris green with water and quick lime for plant spraying, compares Paris green with arsenate of lead, and provides exact proportions for potatoes and peaches. It defines sorghum, its uses in syrup and sugar experiments, and stresses keeping fowls on loose ground and protecting fruit from pests with spraying gear as essential farm tools.
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